Yeah the authentication parts of urllib2 remind me of the horrible 20-letter classes glued together in Java, just the thing I wanted to escape from by using Pyt

Yeah the authentication parts of urllib2 remind me of the horrible 20-letter classes glued together in Java, just the thing I wanted to escape from by using Python. Seeing that I'm trying to make this script interface with a website that uses both cookies and http auth this library seems like a godsend.